Article by 2025 Alum Elizabeth Stice, published in Front Porch Republic.

“We do not need more thought leaders, but more thoughtful human beings. We do not need more literature experts, but even more people committed to the examined life.”

Article by 2024 Faculty William Deresiewicz, published in The Hinternet.

“The highest purpose of a text may be the conversations it enables… The text exists to provide us with an opportunity to talk about it, to commune together through it.”

Article by 2024 Faculty William Deresiewicz, published in Persuasion.

“My student Matthew, having spent many years searching for, then dreaming of, his ideal intellectual environment, decided to create it himself. It would marry rigorous group study of literary and philosophical texts with mindful living and abstention from technologies of communication. It would be a face-to-face community, a retreat from distraction, a school for adults. It would be small, self-governing, contemplative, and free of charge.”

Tribute to Matthew from the Friends of Attention.

A group of Matthew’s friends founded the Strother School for Radical Attention, choosing his name as a way of honoring the role he played in shaping their thinking about attention.

The Strother School is separate from the Matthew Strother Center for the Examined Life, but we are touched by the love and recognition it embodies.

Tribute to Matthew from Diana Mellon and 41 friends from all over the world.

This pollinator garden in Catskill, NY bears Matthew’s name. It was organized and funded by Diana Mellon and 41 friends from all over the world.